“Rowboat On Water”

"Rowboat On Water"

This one was interesting. It's a bit simpler than I normally do but I still think it came out well for what I was going for. I started with an old picture that my grandfather took, I believe in the 1950s. Since he was the chief forester of the state of Virginia, I am assuming this was taken on a Virginia lake.

I have a few of my grandfather's photographs and had never tried to use them but I thought it was time. First, let me show you the original photo.

Original

I believe this was originally a slide of his that I had digitized many years ago. I think all of the black marks are scratches, so I got in Photoshop and cleaned it up. Then, I noticed the image was quite small so I went into Gigapixel by Topaz Labs and made it bigger so I could work with it. Next, I thought the sky was a bit boring so I switched that out. I also cropped it to a square because I really prefer working with squares. I didn't care for the trees, etc on the right side so I just cropped that out. After that, there were just some color adjustments and retouching and then using some filters to make it look like a painting and I added in the birds because I felt like it needed a secondary subject. I think it came out looking good, albeit simple. Hope you enjoy it!